David looked at Lian with a smile as she watched the opening act, dumbfounded. Indeed, many others were also flabbergasted when they first saw the assortment of “girls;” some were feminine to the very core. David had seen so many transsexuals who had been born male but who “felt female,” that he could usually recognize them from a distance, especially by their broader shoulders; some had prominent Adam’s apples, though these could also be “removed” with surgery. These transsexuals were already considered girls, even though they had only undergone partial surgery. David hadn’t always been so good at recognizing ex-boys dressed as girls. He’d never even told his friends how once, about ten years ago, he had picked up a boy he thought was a girl in Nana. Only back at the hotel, right before i

